Here is what we read from him in an article devoted to the well-known book by V. P. Botkin: "Letters on Spain" (*Sovremennik*, 1857, vol. 2):

"The division of a people into hostile castes is one of the strongest obstacles to the improvement of its future — in Spain there is no such pernicious division, no irreconcilable enmity between estates, each of which would be ready to sacrifice the most precious historical acquisitions merely to harm another estate — in Spain the entire nation feels itself as one whole. This peculiarity is so extraordinary among the peoples of Western Europe that it deserves

* For more detail on this, see our book: "Beitrage zur Geschichte des Materialismus — Holbach, Helvetius und Karl Marx". Stuttgart, 1896.

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